Mikas, Matt

Tune (In))): Radio Community in Microcosm Bibliography

free103point9's Tune(In))) is a multi-channel, site-specific installation of live performance, sound, and video art using FM frequencies that engages listeners as active participants and stages a temporary, autonomous radio community. The text situates Tune(In))) within historical radio-art practices, citing Filippo Tomasso Marinetti's La Radia, Ezra Pound's radio operas Le Testament and Cavalcanti, John Cage's Imaginary Landscape #4, John Corbett's Radio Dada Manifesto and Ben Vautier's 1965 mail art The Postman's Choice. It outlines pirate and microcasting activity from early 1960s European offshore stations to Radio New York International (1987) and the 1990s microcasting campaign led by M'banna Kantako and Stephen Dunifer, noting a watered-down Low Power FM program implemented in 2001.